Overview - Custom Sideops For Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Custom Sideops are playable, user-created side-missions which can be added to the game through TinManTex's Infinite Heaven mod. Creating custom sideops manually can be difficult, even for experienced MGSV modders. Without an acute understanding of the game's files, formats and limitations, the user can often find themselves lost and confused.

SOC, or SideOp Companion, is my attempt to automate the process of creating custom sideops. The program alleviates a great deal of the difficult, tedious work involved in creating a custom sideop. Even with minimal understanding of modding, users can create and test their own custom sideops with relative ease. SOC can even create sideops with greater detail than those found in the base game, without even touching the game files. I will go so far as to say that SOC has made Custom SideOps into one of the most accessible forms of modding MGSV:TPP.

Great, Wonderful, Terrific. Where Do I Start?

The tool itself requires .NET 8.0 Runtime You can download SideOp Companion from NexusMods or GitHub. Infinite Heaven is required in order to play Custom Sideops and to use the QuickMenu Preset.

Here's an outdated YouTube Tutorial

As Of 0.8.0.0, SOC has 3 menus, one after another:

Step 1: Setup Page - Understanding The SOC Setup Page

Step 2: Details Page - Creating Details For The Sideop

Step 3: Scripting Page - Creating Custom Scripts For The Sideop

Step 4: Ready For In-Game Testing - Building, Saving, Loading The Sideop

Additional Guidance:

SOC QuickMenu Guide - Gathering Details and In-Game Testing

Enemy Patrol Routes Guide

Custom Progress Notifications Guide